Development of Advanced Safeguards Measurement Techniques Using the Coupled End-to-End (CETE) Demonstration at ORNL

Center for Nuclear Security Science and Policy Initiatives

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

Development of Advanced Safeguards Measurement Techniques Using the Coupled End-to-End (CETE) Demonstration at ORNL

Abstract:

Creating a unique opportunity for students in the U.S., NSSPI is collaborating with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to develop advanced safeguards measurement techniques using the CETE demonstration. ORNL has acquired spent nuclear fuel to be reprocessed at a laboratory scale within their facilities under the Global Nuclear Engineering Partnership (GNEP). NSSPI is contributing to the overall project by providing student, faculty, and staff involvement in performing measurements, analyzing data, simulating experiments, and developing techniques. Measurement technology development has focused primarily on the direct and indirect quantification of plutonium in spent fuel assemblies.

NSSPI, LANL, and ORNL researchers performing spent fuel measurements

NSSPI, LANL, and ORNL researchers performing spent fuel measurements

Associated Publications:

  1. Stephen J. Tobin, Team LANL, Marc Humphrey, Team PNNL, Team LBNL, Team Texas A& M, Team INL, Team ORNL, Team Uppsala, Team KAERI, Team UM, Team SKB, Team LLNL, "Update on the Next Generation Safeguards Initiative Project to Determine Pu Mass in Spent Fuel Assemblies using Nondestructive Assay", 53rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Orlando, Florida, 15-19 July 2012.

  2. W.S. Charlton M.A. Humphrey, "External Review of the Next Generation Safeguards Initiative’s Spent Fuel Nondestructive Assay Project", JNMM, 40, 3 (2012).

  3. J.M. Eigenbrodt, W.S. Charlton, A.A. Solodov, "Sensitivity Analysis and Benchmarking of Low and Broad Energy Photon Measurements for Spent Nuclear Fuel", GLOBAL 2011, Makuhar, Japan, December 11-16, 2011.

  4. A.A. Solodov, W.S. Charlton, C. Romano, M. Ehinger, "Evaluation of NDA Techniques for Quantification of the Plutonium Content in Mixed-Oxide Spent Nuclear Fuel by Destructive Analysis", 52nd Annual Meeting of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), Palm Desert, CA, July 17-21, 2011.

  5. J. Eigenbrodt, W.S. Charlton, A. Solodov, "Sensitivity of Spent Nuclear Fuel Gamma-Ray Measurements", 52nd Annual Meeting of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), Palm Desert, CA, July 17-21, 2011.

  6. A.S. Stafford, "Spent Nuclear Fuel Self-Induced XRF to Predict Pu to U Content", M.S. Thesis, Nuclear Engineering Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, August 2010.

  7. S. Saavedra, W. Charlton, A. Solodov, M. Ehinger, "Using NDA Techniques to Improve Safeguards Metrics on Burnup Quantification and Plutonium Content in LWR SNF", 51st Annual Meeting for the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Baltimore, Maryland, July 11-15, 2010.

  8. A.A. Solodov, W.S. Charlton, S. Saavedra, L. Khodalev, "The Use of Self-induced XRF to Quantify the Pu Content in MOX Spent Nuclear Fuel", 51st Annual Meeting for the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Baltimore, Maryland, July 11-15, 2010.

  9. A.S. Stafford, W.S. Charlton, C.R. Freeman, "Exploration of X-Ray Fluorescence Spent Nuclear Fuel Source Term", 2010 Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Baltimore, MD, July 11-15, 2010.

  10. J. White, W.S. Charlton, A. Solodov, "Applications of X-ray Fluorescence Fission Product Correlations for Nuclear Forensics", 51st Annual Meeting for the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Baltimore, Maryland, July 11-15, 2010.

  11. A. Stafford, W, S. Charlton, J. White, A. Hoover, S. Saavedra, "Spent Nuclear Fuel Self-Induced X-ray Fluorescence Simulations for North Anna and TMI", 2009 Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Tucson, AZ, July 12-15, 2009.

  12. A. Rajasingam, A.S. Hoover, M.L. Fensin, S.J. Tobin, W.S. Charlton, S. Saavedra, A.A. Stafford, D. Strohmeyer, M.T. Swinhoe, "Modeling X-ray Fluorescence from Spent Fuel Rods", 2009 Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Tucson, AZ, July 12-15, 2009.

  13. A. Hoover, W. S. Charlton, M.L. Fensin, A. Rajasingam, C. Rudy, S. Saavedra, A. Stafford, D. Strohmeyer, S. Tobin, "Measurement of Plutonium in Spent Nuclear Fuel by Self-Induced X-ray Fluorescence", 2009 Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Tucson, AZ, July 12-15, 2009.

  14. S.J. Tobin, W.S. Charlton, M.H. Ehinger, M.L. Fensin, A.S. Hoover, H.O. Menlove, B.J. Quiter, A. Rajasingam, N.P. Soval, S.F. Saavedra, D. Strohmeyer, M.T. Swinhoe, S.J. Thompson, "Determining Plutonium in Spent Fuel with Nondestructive Assay Techniques", Proceedings of 31st Annual Meeting of ESARDA, May 26-28, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania.

  15. W.S. Charlton, D. Strohmeyer, A. Stafford, S. Saavedra, A.S. Hoover, C. Rudy, "The Use of Self-Induced XRF to Quantify the Pu Content in PWR Spent Nuclear Fuel", Proceedings of 31st Annual Meeting of ESARDA, May 26-28, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania.

  16. S. Saavedra, W. Charlton, A. Solodov, "Quantification of the Fissile Content of Incoming Spent Nuclear Fuel for the CETE Demonstration through Non-Destructive Assay Techniques", 49th Annual Meeting of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, Nashville, TN, July 13-17, 2008.